1 Samuel 7:1-3

International Standard Version

The Ark is Stored in Kiriath-Jearim

7 The men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the Ark of the Lord. They brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill, and they consecrated his son Eleazar to care for the Ark of the Lord.

² A long time passed—it was twenty years—from the time the Ark came to reside in Kiriath-jearim, and all the house of Israel mourned because of the Lord.

The Philistines are Defeated at Ebenezer

³ Then Samuel told the whole house of Israel, “If you’re returning to the Lord with all your heart, then remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth^[a] from among you, direct your hearts back to the Lord, and serve him only. Then he will deliver you from the control of the Philistines.”